{"type":"article","show_header_text":true,"header":"ARTICLES ABOUT ROBERT JAY LIFTON","query":"(per=\"LIFTON, ROBERT JAY\") and tom!=\"Caption\" and tom!=\"Correction\" and tom!=\"List\" and tom!=\"Paid Death Notice\" and dsk!=\"Society\"","search_query":"(persons:\"LIFTON, ROBERT JAY\") AND -type_of_material:\"Caption\" AND -type_of_material:\"Correction\" AND -type_of_material:\"List\" AND -type_of_material:\"Paid Death Notice\" AND -news_desk:\"Society\"","num_search_articles":"10","show_summary":true,"show_byline":true,"show_pub_date":true,"hide_thumbnails":false,"show_kicker":false,"show_title":false,"show_related_topics":true,"show_rad_links":true,"show_subtopics":true,"exclude_topics":"LIFTON, ROBERT JAY","more_on_header":"MORE ON ROBERT JAY LIFTON AND:","alternate_index_subidx":"","show_thumbnails":true}

For many years, Robert Jay Lifton has been recognized as a leading ''psychohistorian,'' or as he prefers to define his vocation, a ''historically minded psychiatrist.'' Psychohistory is the field of inquiry that explores the psychological motives of...

To the Editor: Sally Satel (Op-Ed, March 5) questions the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder in American troops returning from Iraq, as well as parallels being drawn between them and Vietnam veterans. She attributes the concept of delayed...

DR. ROBERT JAY LIFTON has spent his life studying people in extreme situations. He has written about Japanese survivors in Hiroshima, Vietnam veterans, Nazi doctors and members of terrorist cults. But he has also spent a lifetime as an activist,...

January 14, 2003, Tuesday

To the Editor: Re ''Israeli Soldier Just Wants to Go Home'' (news article, May 10): Since Jan. 25, more than 450 Israeli Defense Force reserve combat soldiers and officers have refused to serve in the occupied territories. Declaring that ''the...

May 15, 2002, Wednesday

To the Editor: Robert Jay Lifton refers to Arje Shaw's play ''The Gathering,'' which, he says, ''examines Ronald Reagan's strange visit to the SS cemetery at Bitburg in connection with conflicts between a Jewish survivor and his Reaganite son.''

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton has spent more than half a century pondering subjects like genocide, terrorism and nuclear extinction, but he says he is not gloomy: ''One's life work can be devoted to dreadful events without becoming deeply pessimistic.'' ...

December 12, 1999, Sunday

DESTROYING THE WORLD TO SAVE IT Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence and the New Global Terrorism By Robert Jay Lifton 374 pages. Metropolitan Books. $26. Robert Jay Lifton, professor of psychology and psychiatry at John Jay College and the...